Halloween Cruises, Tampa Upgrades, North Pole Dreams

Today on Cruise News: Carnival Cruise Line is planning 155 Halloween-themed cruises across its entire 29-ship fleet, with departures running from September 20 through October 31, 2026, and onboard fun including costume contests, trick-or-treating, themed bingo, and pumpkin hunts. Port Tampa Bay has completed three enclosed, climate-controlled boarding bridges across its cruise terminals, modernizing infrastructure for the roughly 1.6 million cruise passengers it handles each year. And Ponant Explorations has opened its 2028 Arctic bookings, including eight Geographic North Pole departures aboard the polar icebreaker Le Commandant Charcot, part of more than 35 sailings spanning Greenland, Svalbard, the Northwest Passage, and Iceland.